Pinkwashing South Africa
The positive media surrounding ‘Cape Town as a gay paradise’ obscures far more complex realities.
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On African Asylum Seekers in Israel
Media about African refugees and asylum seekers in Israel highlight their experiences and desires for rights, but erase their agency, portraying them solely as victims of violence and exploitation.
Africa is a Science Fiction Superpower
A film series in London explores what it would mean imbuing Africa with extra-terrestrial powers. We speak to the curators, Al Cameron and Nav Haq.
The Legacy of Nat Nakasa
Nat Nakasa was an ambitious journalist who had the cold fortune of being born black in 20th century South Africa.
Gay Shame in Johannesburg
The confrontation at Johannesburg Pride between white organizers and a group of black activists demanding Pride honor those killed, mostly black, for their sexuality, in South Africa.
The indelible mark of the mbira
The thumb piano has made somewhat of a resurgence in contemporary pop music partly because of the international stardom of groups like Konono N˚1.
Cape Town needs a visit from Anthony Bourdain
Foodyism and obscure ‘ethnic’ food are trendy these days. So, it is odd that South Africa hasn’t received more attention.
A World Cup for the people
Even VAR could not save the Africans who withered away in the first round of Russia 2018.
All the immigrants’ crimes in Italy
The online work of Italian rightwing websites to establish the idea that immigrants are dangerous for the Italian society
Sinophobia
Lesotho's media and the "problem" of Chinese immigrant shop owners.
There is more to my life than making photographs
In our series of interviews with young artists and creatives continue: This week's guest: photographer and blogger, Nana Kofi Acquah.
The Blood of the Impure
The French national anthem is a pretty nasty song. It dreams, in one of its more memorable verses, that the “blood of the impure” will “irrigate our fields.”
The Africa-China romance is killing Europe
A Dutch documentary film explores increasing migration and trade links between African countries, their citizens and China.
The Dutch Media Drama
Why is a photo of an empathetic group of young Dutch Moroccans visiting a concentration camp being used to illustrate so many stories in which Moroccans are a "problem"?
Where the thing in her head translated well
An interview with the filmmaker Dehanza Rogers, about the film "Sweet, Sweet Country," a fictional film capturing the harsh personal choices of Africans in Clarkson, a town in Georgia known for its large immigrant population.
Papers in order
Weekend Special: The premiere of Mahamat Saleh Haroun's new film "Grigris" and the cover art for the Dutch translation of Binyavanga Wainaina's memoir, among others.
A Senegalese Citizen
Bousso Dramé, a young Senegalese winner of a French prize tells the organizers of a prize to shove it.
Restaging the Death of Patrice Lumumba
The merits of restaging 'Une Saison au Congo,' Aimé Césaire's history of the life and death of Patrice Lumumba, in London, starring Chiwetel Ejiofor.